Manuscripta juridica

Lectura Digestorum .

It appears that Sir Thomas probably taught himself, and that on this occasion he took notes of the same kind as those which students take when following lectures. Legibly written, entirely in Latin, and written by only one hand. In the margins there are some additions by the same hand, and also some cross references to parallel texts in the Codex Justinianus. The notes strictly follow the arrangement of emperor Justinian's Digesta. For the work's last two titles (Digesta 50.16-17), however, Sir Thomas compiled pertinent alphabetical indexes only (fol. 228r infra to 231r). While the main text was composed in less than seventeen months time, 1602/8/5-1603/12/16, the alphabetical index at the end was only finished twenty months later: 1605/8/31

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Author(s):

• Thomas Hope of Craighall

No. of pages: Fol. 1r-231r

Rubric: 5(?) Augusti 1602. Indices seu paratitla titulorum et legum in Digestis repertorum, non ad amussim, sed rudius ad meam privatam gratiam continuata et collecta. Thomas Hope, Thomas Hope. Digestorum liber primus. Titulus 1. De iustitia et iure

Incipit:

• Subiectum huius operis est ius. Est autem ius ars boni et aequi: l. 1 in principio [D.1.1.1]. Eius scientia 'jurisprudentia' nuncupatur. Est autem jurisprudentia divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia: l. 10 § fin. [D.1.1.10.2]. Jurisprudentiae finis est iustitia, quae definitur: constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi: dicta l. 10 Iustitia, in principio [D.1.1.10 pr.]. Ius aliud est publicum, quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat. Et in sacris, sacerdotibus et in magistratibus consistit. Aliud privatum - quod et tripartitum est: aliud enim est naturale, quod natura omnia animalia docuit, unde descendunt maris et feminae coniunctio, liberorum procreatio et educatio; aliud est ius gentium, quod solis hominibus, non etiam caeteris animalibus, proprium est; et est vel primarium, et absque discursu rationis, ut sunt erga deum religio, et erga parentes obsequium: l. 2 Veluti [D.1.1.2.]; vel post discursum intellectus, ex discursu proveniens

Explicit:

• U. Iura sanguinis nullo iure civili dirimi possunt: l. 8 [D.50.17.8]

Colophon: Finis. 16 Decembris 1603. Thomas Hope, Thomas Hope